Recorded Music Industry
Commercial recording, duplication, catalogs, copyright management, distribution, and playback of music and spoken performance.
Core metadata
- ID: recorded_music_industry
- Era: Industrial
- First known date: 1889 (year)
- Region: United States
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Early Copyright & Printing Privileges (early_copyright_printing_privileges)
- Mass Media (Newspapers) (mass_media_newspapers)
- Phonograph (phonograph)
Dependents
- Digital Music Distribution (digital_music_distribution)
- Industrial Cinema Distribution (industrial_cinema_distribution)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Classical Music: 1889-1925 (Library of Congress, 2005, official_agency) • Supports: node
Locator: The Library of Congress essay states that commercial production of cylinder records for musical entertainment began at the Edison Laboratory in May 1889, calling it the genesis of the worldwide recording industry. - History of the Cylinder Phonograph (Library of Congress, 2026, official_agency) • Supports: node
Locator: The Library of Congress describes Edison forming the Edison Phonograph Company in 1887 and introducing improved commercial phonograph products in 1888.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 0
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phonograph (phonograph) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Phonograph provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Mass Media (Newspapers) (mass_media_newspapers) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Mass Media (Newspapers) provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Early Copyright & Printing Privileges (early_copyright_printing_privileges) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Early Copyright & Printing Privileges is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. | No sources recorded. |
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